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Self-Insurance and Consumption Risk-Sharing between Birth-Year Cohorts in Turkey

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  • Evren Ceritoglu

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This paper tests the empirical validity of consumption risk-sharing hypothesis across urban and rural regions in Turkey. For this purpose, I analyze twelve consecutive waves of the TURKSTAT Household Budget Surveys from 2003 to 2014 and prepare a pseudo-panel data set for birth-year cohorts following Deaton (1985). There are three important findings of this paper. First, our empirical analysis shows that there is imperfect consumption risk-sharing between birth-year cohorts in Turkey. We observe that the growth of cohort consumption is positively and significantly associated with both the growth of cohort income and the growth of aggregate consumption. Second, the need for risk-sharing is analyzed using the variance of the growth of cohort consumption as a proxy variable for future labor income uncertainty. Empirical findings reveal that urban households and mature working-age households are more sensitive to future labor income uncertainty. Finally, cohorts would have sacrificed modest amounts to insure their consumption.

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  • Evren Ceritoglu, 2017. "Self-Insurance and Consumption Risk-Sharing between Birth-Year Cohorts in Turkey," Working Papers 1701, Research and Monetary Policy Department, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey.
    • Handle: RePEc:tcb:wpaper:1701
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    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
    • D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
    • D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis

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